Type Design – Faith Production Work

Back in 94, 95 Paul Sych of Faith asked me to do the production work on a typeface package he was going to release through Thirstype. (Sadly it looks as though it’s no longer available from them.)

I created the analphabetic, accented characters, set up the kerning tables, and in some cases, created variants (italic, bold, outline, etc.) 

One of the faces was Wit, which was inspired by the experimental typography of Kurt Schwitters. One of the Dadaists, he created a system of Systematic Letters. Consonants are narrow and square and vowels are fatter and round.

This shows some of the characters I did and some of the variants. 

A piece done by the awesome and inimitable Rick Valicenti of 3st utilizing Wit.

And some examples of how Paul used it in a magazine he art directed, Impact.

Another of the typefaces was called Fix, the lower case of which is shown below.

I’d always been into remixes of music, and I figured it was perfectly valid to extend that idea to type as well. So I created the Fix Sin Mix.

I also created the Fix Ram Hog Mix, quite possibly the most unwieldy font in the world. Each character contains +- 300 to 600 points. The .fog file was massive. Clever in concept, preposterous in execution.

Another of the typefaces was USeh, a very clever typeface/commentary on America and consumer culture. 

A postcard designed by Paul for the release of the P.S. Faith typeface package.

Some more examples of Paul’s typefaces in use, can be seen here.